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  2. Matrilineality - Wikipedia

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    The Minangkabau are a prime example of a matrilineal culture with female inheritance. With Islamic religious background of complementarianism and places a greater number of men than women in positions of religious and political power. Inheritance and proprietorship pass from mother to daughter. [68]

  3. Matrilineal succession - Wikipedia

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    matrilineal primogeniture where the eldest female child of the subject is entitled to the hereditary succession before her younger sisters, and her brothers are not entitled at all. matrilineal ultimogeniture where the youngest daughter is the heir. This system is found among the Khasis of India.

  4. List of matrilineal or matrilocal societies - Wikipedia

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    Matrilineal Wampanoag: North America: United States: Matrilocal Matrilineal Nipmuc: North America: United States: Matrilineal Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico: North America: United States: Matrilineal Paul Kirchhoff [21] 1954 Keres people: North America: United States: Matrilineal Paul Kirchhoff [21] 1954 Wayuu: South America: Colombia, Venezuela ...

  5. Historical inheritance systems - Wikipedia

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    Inheritance customs do not follow clear ethnic, linguistic or geographical patterns. Equality between all sons and a subordinate position of women, with the exclusion of daughters from inheriting, are prominent aspects of Hungarian, [29] Albanian, [30] Romanian, [31] Armenian, and most Slavic [32] [33] [34] or Latin American cultures. [35]

  6. Matrilineality in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Schiffman further asserted that a matrilineal principle likely already existed at the time of Ezra, due to the natural relationship between mother and child. According to Schiffman, in the First Temple period those women who moved to Israelite territory effectively underwent "informal conversion" to join the Jewish people.

  7. Mitochondrial Eve - Wikipedia

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    In other words, she is defined as the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line purely through their mothers and through the mothers of those mothers, back until all lines converge on one woman. In terms of mitochondrial haplogroups, the mt-MRCA is situated at the divergence of macro-haplogroup L into L0 and L1–6.

  8. The 10 Most Infamous Family Inheritance Feuds - AOL

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    Nothing is certain but death and taxes, and where those two intersect -- wills and the estates people leave behind when they pass -- there's supposed to be some certainty as well. Wills are ...

  9. Serer maternal clans - Wikipedia

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    The Serer are both patrilineal (simanGol [3] or Simangol [4]) and matrilineal. [5] [6] Inheritance depends on the nature of the asset being inherited – i.e. whether it is a maternal asset which requires maternal inheritance (ƭeen yaay [5] or den yaay [1]) or paternal asset requiring paternal inheritance (kucarla). [5]